Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 2

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• In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Photography, Adversity

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• You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

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  Inspirational, Children, Mistake

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• There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Best Effort

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• Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

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  Friendship, True Friend, Lying

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• Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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  Retirement, Wine, Old Friends

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139

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• If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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  Justice, Fairness, Criminal Justice

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1844). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author”, p.311

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• God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

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  Book, Two, Environmental

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• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

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  Motivational, Hope, Wisdom

  J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Works of Francis Bacon' vol. 7 (1859) 'Apophthegms contained in Resuscitatio' no. 36

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• By far the best proof is experience.

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  Science, Experience, Belief

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• People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

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  Believe, People, Want

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• The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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  Understanding, Limits, Universe

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• Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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  Teacher, Military, Reading

  Essays "Of Studies" (1625)

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• Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

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  Science, Mind, Mystery

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• Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

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  Life Is, Easy, Ability

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• Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

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  Money, Littles, Use

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• He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

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  Envy, Cases

  Francis Bacon (1866). “The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh”, p.22

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• The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

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  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "ELAC’s VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

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  Choices, Understanding, Statistics

  Francis Bacon (1985). “The Essays”, p.423, Penguin UK

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• In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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  Persistence, Fire, Clay

  Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

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• The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

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  Men, Lame, Judo

  Sir Francis Bacon, “The Interpretation Of Nature And”

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• When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

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  Men, Self, Bees

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• I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

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  Dark, Decision, Age

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• To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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  Halloween, Entrepreneur, Political

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• We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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  Nature, Changing Environment, Conservation

  1620 Novum Organum, bk.1, aphorism129.

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• He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

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  Hands, Giving, Advice

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